Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-30
My soul, in its ecstacy, revels in love.

burst forth
In newness of life. Now no wind from the
NTH
OF "cola d scontent' wraps my soul in it's ms ,
My sEN is clear. and no cause Tor slarms
IAppesr5 on It horizon. Anna nv own
| Priceless jewel. look up-,he reeds have sown
Are yielding their f. nit; let me look in those
| eyes
And Learn, Il can, where this mystery lies
Tha like an enehantment, 80 sudden and
! strange
Has wrought on my life such wonderful
| change
IT'S strange. now SO happy so sad in the past
The lane was so long but tie turned TO love, at
almost despaired, for In truth can say,
My life's darkest hour, was the one before day.
And hou vert the sun, whose soft mellowing
| lsht
J First old my ga heart of the end to its night.
| Thy smi lit nv life like Aurora's flint dawn
| Paints sy with the tenderest bushes Of m IN /;
And then, thy sweet promise so canoidly given,
Like faith to the soul, is the earnest TO heaven.
L never before f 1t glow Ike to this"
| and m deity touching her Fps with kiss,
| His arm stoIe around her. Mo. P--Mr. P
| Game a voice fir IN withouD make haste sir,
zee
| Ths south bound Ia slgat. l must go love, he
said,
And hastily snatching mis- gripsack. he sped
| IN his way to Ine train Ist being In time,
! He lief to seek couques in some othe cline.
Now P--wa drummer, and ever one
snSW5
4 dru nmer's a drummer. wherever he goes.
|
Can put on Gu airs. If OILY his worth
| was equa to what he believes IL TO be
The world could not buy him His manners
And eek IL has cheek like government
mule,
He'd tacal, the Qusen and pronounce her
| fool
Az soon as he left her; provided he fail
40 take the Qaeens order. If he maze sale
| However, his modesty vows and declares
His house cells the bess and ths cheapest Of
| wares.
HE honor (if ever he had such thing
Is long since d parted and never q sting
OF conscience disturbs him. = e's paid to tell
| les
And tells Thorn of course, yet affects to dsspise
Unfairnes In very thing. praises the truth
A seys that because he IS truthful forsooth
And will no. pref nd to sell goods I'm er cost
| You'll "uy = ON anDther-s me fell wv VIII LIST
To all sense of honor is trav'tiug around
And quilting the PEG lie Now who has yet
Or heard II drummer (no differences where)
Who'lltell you the truth, and who'll act on the
They new, smoke and drink, and cen whistle
If truths they e'er tell, they are told in dis
uise.
But back to the subject. Now after he left
Miss Annie fel truly like one who reft
| OF one very dear had ju ade hing odNye-
The last Time on cart /; yeG she couldn't tell
why,
Yet t this sad thought kept filing her mind.
50 atrolIing around, she attempted TO find
| Some object of interest on hich to dwell
In thought and thus break her monotonous
OF ernui What fanciful freak of the brain
Fer Greye er to thin our Robert again
L. more than I know There are Two things
That melody knows-who women will wed,
And what will be done by jury. But true,
Ne'ertheless, hle feeling so terribly blue
! she th ugnt of poor Robert; how earnest and
His Teat nobl- soul, and how fully secure
me wa g. his love; and how truthful and tried
How Often he'd called her pet names and his
bride,
And how she had promised to give him hel
arr
And hand; and the 4 only to think the pa-l
she had played in to days little drama OF life
She tn u hit herself truly, unfiD Tor The WIFI
OF any good man and 90 hiaing her face
In both of her h tHds the Kept trying To trace
| 'he came of her sadness, i'll finally she
Fell asleep, and In cams, at las he was free
| It's said il You dip in cold water the hand
OF one while he 81 eps-if the sleeper can stand
The hath witnout waking, h1'u tell you hts
dreams.
Now Robelt had heard this. and strange a, Ii
seems,
He entered the parlor where Anna asleep
Was and ore mig perhaps, of things she
would keep
As secret death--he at once set about
his strange novel way of his finding them ont
So qninkly, but qui tly stealing away
He left her asleep, and then aft -tay
Of only nOment,re urnei to the place
!
One aad wi hout waking her up, and began
To carefully lower 1t into the pan
OF water As GOA Is he 1nishe this feat
And all was pr par ID, he drew up a seat
And waite T. See # anytuing strange
Would ppen. She ;aIsed 10 her head, and 8
change
Came over her features, an opening her eyes
She murmurt inaudibly. Bob with SURPRISE
Inten ly looked on. an concluded Ms spell
OF enema tment woald woIk. and fore her t
| tell
Her secrets. At Last IN voice soft and low,
Une rthly, but sweet IS the mn mu ing flow
or stream ia summer while Z-phyTs al play
| Keep ime TO the music IL make on the way,
She spO aUo thus ado. why ID he go,
And lie We alone? Had ON said O.
But then have before felt such bies
As that, that felt when he gave me kiss
Anu c'rcled my waist with his arm Who was
he?
Bob asked ard sh answered at once Mr.. P
DID you ever l. that fool drum ner kiss you?
Bob asGed, and sac answ red again t. il true
de Used ne, and wooed me, and won me for
| life;
I gave him my prom Sc ana must be his wife.
Now Robert was flu y persuaded that she
| w + dreaming ana telling her ecrets; but he
| Didn's hin how Unfair aud unnl1n y tn, way
Was be used to lind out what they were. Now,
No man ever vet undertook to find out
The secre S of tners unfairly without
He lea ned muGh that he W uld prefer not to
And R bert L. this last rec found it was 30.
| " neL Was y cliIQ L1ls lie learned.
BY trying TO hear where was cOncerne :,
b eavesdr pping others; I've often card said
Some strange maiedictions heaped on lLy own
| head,
But never as yet have l caught kind word
In all the conversation, / ever have he I'd
In that way; bee use what one learns on the
sly,
Or gains In trade by the wink OF an eye,
| Wiu dc him no good. But l am free 10 co ,fess
This thong t has crept in mere and made me
| dlgress
I'll bauk to my theme: Sow Robert had heard
| His sweetheart dream things that he thought
| were alb -urd
Her dreams t, be real; and thi king he smelt
A rat Gas he saving goes). he gr W quite sad
At what he had listened to-sLtl he wa, FL ~
| t. snow just how fcV lie, unstable. untrue
MI 8 Anna WAS him And yet he was blue,
De- jected and sad, til at last h. got mad,
| Took the wa er an pan aud hurriedly fed
| n was he as ca ceful as when b b gan,
| But made so much noise as he snatched up the
| pan
That Anna Iwaked up. Now what does this
| mea'?
Oh.she thought to herself how fool! h I've been
l. failing asleep aud then, rubbing her eyes,
Her han felt as old ana rs damp as the skies
l. Oh in winter. Now what on earth could have
| made
Her hand cold and damp? shs thought, and
| afraid
| That something had happened to her In r
(Like W men do always) she star ed to weep;
out, just as the tear gathered thick IN her
eses,
In looking around she suddenly spies
A iair sitting close her wn and she knows
That some one has been in the rom. She
| arose,
Examined the room, found the floor too was
wet